Riot Games has announced large-scale cuts. She intends to part with 11% of the staff.

Piranha Bytes commented on the rumors about the closure of the studio. CEO Michael Rüve acknowledged that the studio is going through difficult times, but she hopes to solve the problems.

Ahead of the imminent release of the Indika third-person action game from Odd Meter, now based in Kazakhstan, we spoke with studio head Dmitry Svetlov.

The creators of Palworld have announced that the game has crossed the next millionth milestone. It took three days for the Pokemon action game to sell 5 million copies.

MY.GAMES continues to transfer the Russian business to Astrum Entertainment. As Kommersant noted in the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, on January 10, 2024, Astrum Entertainment officially gained control of Novosibirsk-based Deuskraftdev LLC.

On January 19, Palworld, an action game with Pokemon—like creatures, was released in early access. Steam users liked the game.

Chinese gamers can play War Robots again. MY.GAMES has announced that, in partnership with publisher iDreamSky, it has re-released the shooter in local mobile app stores.

In a survey by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Omdia, 35% of game developers said that they were affected in one way or another by the cuts actively taking place in game development in recent months.

The medieval town planner Manor Lords took the second place in the list of the most desired games on Steam. According to developer Greg Styczeń, he didn’t even expect that so many people would be interested in his game.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), with the participation of the Omdia consulting firm, conducted a survey of 3,000 game developers. According to him, over the past 12 months, 7% of developers have already changed the engine, and 28% began to consider this possibility.

Another news about layoffs. Now the Polish publisher CI Games has announced a significant reduction in personnel.

On January 11, 2024, the distribution of Sail Forth, an adventure game offering to surf the ocean on a sailboat, started in the Epic Games Store. The distribution led to a huge increase in the game’s audience.

In 2022, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker left the Rocksteady Studios they founded. Now it has become known that they have established another company. Like Rocksteady Studios, it is located in London.

The growth rate of subscription revenue has slowed. This was announced by Mat Piscatella, an executive director and analyst at Circana (formerly NPD).

The Paris Court of Appeal has cleared the French mobile publisher Homa of all charges brought by Voodoo. The latter claimed that the hyper—casual Craft Island game developed by Ducky Games studio — the “daughter” of Homa – copies its Lumbercraft.

More than 10 Russian companies that previously settled in Cyprus are going to leave the country, the Cypriot news portal Philenews reports. They will either return to Russia or settle in Kazakhstan.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” told how things were going with sales of disc editions of console games in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group, which owns many game studios, is switching to economy mode. The company said it was forced to restructure because it had spent too much on purchases and investments over the past few years.

At the beginning of 2023, the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment updated the logo, which caused dissatisfaction with the company Take-Two Interactive. The latter appealed to the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) with a complaint that the new Remedy logo looks too much like the logo of her “daughter” Rockstar Games.